C4 show based on quotes

David Mitchell is adding another panel show to his CV.

He is hosting a new Channel 4 series Was It Something I Said? based on quotes, tweets, literature and TV & film dialogue.

The show boasts a world first, in that viewers will be able to play along with the show via Twitter, and receive bonus content as they watch.

Mitchell is a team captain on the BBC panel show Would I Lie To You?, and hosts the Radio 4 panel game The Unbelievable Truth. He previously hosted The Bubble and has guested on QI, Have I Got News for You, Mock the Week, 8 Out of 10 Cats andThe Big Fat Quiz of the Year, among others.

Was It Something I Said? was announced this morning as part of Channel 4’s new season launch.

Also confirmed was the Peter Kay one-off special Malachy’s Millions.

In the hour-long show he plays coach boss Malachy Mooney who for one week will will trade his luxury lifestyle to go and live undercover in a destitute former mining town in Northern England.

Also confirmed is Greg Davies’ sitcom Man Down, about a teacher who hates his job, and London Irish, about a a hard-drinking, hard-living expat community of Northern Irish twenty-somethings, plus the return of PhoneShop to E4.

E4 also hosts Drifters, the sitcom about post-university life written by written by and starring Jessica Knappett and backed by the team behind The Inbetweeners.

10 O’Clock Live also returns in 2013 with original presenters David Mitchell, Charlie Brooker, Lauren Laverne and Jimmy Carr, as does The Last Leg with Adam Hills, Josh Widdicombe and Alex Brooker.

Also in the new schedules is hidden camera show The Public Eye, which sets out to ‘test the nation’s moral compass’ with a series of stunts, to ask questions such as: Will passers-by object to a gay couple’s very public display of affection?

Published: 19 Mar 2013